Trust Engagement - Senior Manager (US)

Atlassian; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 221,000 - 289,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonuses

Job summary

Atlassian is expanding its Trust Engagement team in the United States. This Senior Manager will lead AMER-based professionals, shaping enterprise strategy and aligning security, compliance, and customer trust initiatives with Go-To-Market and Legal partners.

You will drive process improvements, influence product features, and guide executive-level discussions on trust strategies for our cloud products. A strong track record in scaling security programs and communicating with senior leadership is

Qualifications

• 10+ years in management roles within security, governance, risk and compliance.
• Experience mentoring high-performing teams and elevating capability.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams across security, risk, and compliance.
• Proven success scaling trust and security programs in large organizations.
• Experience briefing executives and customers on trust, security, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Trust Engagement team’s interactions with Trust & Security, GTM/Sales, Compliance, Privacy, Legal, and Customer Support.
• Enhance Trust & Security practices and drive strategic improvements to internal processes.
• Influence security and compliance product features and drive customer engagement at scale.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration to achieve trust outcomes across regions and functions.
• Act as primary contact for escalations, ensuring timely resolution and post-incident improvements.
• Support executive briefings by presenting Atlassian’s Trust Strategy in pre/post sales engagements.

Skills

Security leadership

GRC – governance, risk & compliance

Team management

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tooling for efficiency

Executive briefing

Job description

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

Overview

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

Your future team

The Trust Engagement team is a globally distributed team of security & compliance professionals that help our customers to perform risk assessments they require to trust our company and products.

We are a focused group committed to ensuring that customers trust our Cloud Products. We value diverse thinking and creativity, so we can support each other and do interesting things. You will work with the whole Atlassian team to improve our Trust Program and story.

Atlassian is rapidly growing our Trust Engagement team and we need experienced and motivated people to help us meet our goals. As a Senior Manager, you will drive the growth and expansion of how we earn and maintain customer trust.

Responsibilities

What you’ll do

You will oversee the team’s interactions with Trust & Security, Go-To-Market/Sales, Compliance, Privacy, Legal, and Customer Support. Your primary focus will be on enhancing Trust & Security practices, driving strategic enhancements to our internal processes, influencing security and compliance product features, and strengthening customer engagement. You will never have a dull moment as you enable our customers' Trust in Atlassian by understanding and meeting a wide range of customers current and future expectations as it relates to trusting our Cloud Products.

In This Role, You Will

• Provide leadership, mentorship, and manage a high performing team of AMER based professionals, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement across the Trust Engagement function.
• Contribute to strategic planning for the Trust Engagement function with senior leadership, shaping and executing a winning enterprise strategy that aligns with Atlassian’s Trust objectives.
• Drive improvements in processes, tooling, and reporting to enhance the effectiveness and scalability of Trust Engagement programs.
• Partner cross functionally with security, compliance, and legal teams on strategic initiatives that deliver customer trust outcomes at scale.
• Act as the primary point of contact for Strategic & Enterprise customer escalations, driving timely resolution and preventing recurrence through post incident reviews and process improvements.
• Support Atlassian Executive Briefings by presenting Atlassian’s Trust Strategy to customers in pre and post sales engagements.
• Support legal in negotiating security and compliance terms & exhibits for Atlassian Customer Agreements.

Your background

• On your first day, we’ll expect you to have:
  • 10+ years of progressive experience across management roles, in Security, Governance, Risk, and Compliance domains.
  • Experience mentoring and developing high performing teams, with a track record of elevating team capability and fostering a culture of excellence.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence cross functional teams and drive organizational change in security, risk, and compliance domains.
  • Proven success in driving programs that scale trust and security practices across large organizations.
  • Demonstrated use of AI tools to improve team efficiency and scale trust engagement workflows
  • Familiarity with AI security and compliance considerations (e.g., data residency, model transparency, vendor attestations)
  • Evidence of impact beyond individual projects, such as shaping strategy or leading initiatives that span multiple departments or regions.
  • Proven ability to brief and influence executives and customers on trust, security, and compliance strategy.
  • Knowledge of various compliance and security certifications (FedRAMP, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, etc.)
  • Experience working with Regulatory Compliance, Global Privacy Programs, Cloud Security or related functions.
  • Experience in a large-scale enterprise Cloud solutions.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Role

In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $221,400 - $289,050

Zone B: $199,800 - $260,850

Zone C: $184,500 - $240,875

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.